Sanua defended Egyptian nationalists joining the Mahdi as faith-based unity against a common enemy.

Evidence

Observe that I don’t blame at all those among you, former soldiers and officers of `Arabï, who have joined the Mahdï, to fight the common en- emy in the ranks of his army. If you are not of the same country, then you are of the same faith. Patriotism has its despairs, and the English have the bad grace to reproach you for it, they who, in Spain, united with the fanatics of the Inquisition in order to defeat the Napoleonic invasion. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 484

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: The Islamic-unity framing of the Mahdist ally is a notable moment in connecting Egypt’s colony to Sudan’s.

Related

• Sanu’a argued Egyptians fighting in Sudan fought against Muslim brothers. (similarity 0.89)
• Exiled Egyptian nationalists misread the Mahdi as a natural ally (similarity 0.89)
• Sanua embraced the Mahdi’s spiritual mission while al-Afghani did not (similarity 0.88)
• Defeated Egyptian `Urabist exiles publicly sanctioned joining the Sudanese Mahdi’s army (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian exiled nationalists recast Sudanese Mahdist resistance as pan-Egyptian heroism, erasing friction (similarity 0.84)
• Sanua wielded satire to attack Khedive Tawfiq using the Mahdi as defender of Egyptians. (similarity 0.83)
• Sanua saw the Mahdi’s poverty as proof of divine purpose against imperialism. (similarity 0.82)
• Sanua cast the Mahdi’s rise as a divine miracle against superior British arms. (similarity 0.81)
• Sanua framed the Mahdi’s humble origins as divine revolutionary miracle, unlike al-Afghani (similarity 0.80)
• Lutfï al-Sayyid reframed Egyptian-Sudanese unity on secular history rather than Islam (similarity 0.80)
• Egyptian nationalists regarded Sudan as an inseparable part of Egypt, not a colony. (similarity 0.80)
• Sanü`a saw the Mahdïya as nationalism among people not ready for self-government (similarity 0.79)
• Sudanese elites early rejected unity with Egypt in favor of independence (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptian army officers joined the Mahdist cause mainly from resentment at the khedive’s betrayal (similarity 0.79)
• Exiled nationalists read the Mahdi’s revolt as political strategy, not religion (similarity 0.79)